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“Hoofe 
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A  Brief  Outline 
of  the 

Foreign  Work 
of  the 
Christian 
and 

Missionary 

Alliance 


Christian  and  Missionary  Alliance 
690  Eighth  Avenue 
New  York  City 
1918 


A  Brief  Outline  of  the  Foreign  Work 
of  the 

Christian  and  Missionary  Alliance. 

The  Christian  and  Missionary  Alliance 
is  a  union  of  Christians  of  all  evangelical 
denominations  for  fellowship,  prayer  and 
effort  in  promoting  the  gospel  of  full  sal¬ 
vation  and  the  evangelization  of  the  neg¬ 
lected  classes  at  home  and  abroad. 

1.  Its  Missionary  Aim.  To  follow  out 
the  command  and  commission  of  Jesus 
Christ,  “Go  ye  into  all  the  world  and 
preach  the  gospel  to  every  creature.” 

2.  Its  Missionary  Conviction.  That 
the  terms  of  our  Lord’s  commission  make 
tlie  task  of  giving  the  gospel  impartially 
to  the  whole  world  one  which  claims  pre¬ 
cedence  to  every  other  enterprise ;  that 


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such  missionary  work  has  a  vital  bearing^ 
upon  the  blessed  hope  of  Christ’s  second 
coming,  through  the  gathering  out  from 
among  all  nations  of  a  people  for  His 
name,  and  that  the  fact  that  through  the 
Church’s  negligence  and  apathy  nearly 
two-thirds  of  the  world  still  remains  un¬ 
evangelized,  after  nineteen  centuries, 
adds  tremendous  emphasis  to  the  duty  of 
the  Church  of  today  to  make  a  supreme 
effort  to  give  to  every  nation  and  indi¬ 
vidual  the  offer  of  salvation  during  the 
present  generation. 

3.  Its  Missionary  Policy.  Not  to  dupli¬ 
cate  the  work  of  already  existing  Mis¬ 
sionary  Societies  in  any  field,  but,  like  the 
Apostle  Paul,  to  become  pioneers  in  “the 
regions  beyond”  and  carry  the  gospel  to 
the  darkest  and  most  destitute  parts  of 
every  land. 

4.  Its  Missionary  Method.  While  rec¬ 
ognizing  the  need  and  value  of  all  other 
methods  of  missionary  work,  in  their  true 


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order  and  proportion,  the  methods  pur¬ 
sued  by  the  Christian  and  Missionary  Al¬ 
liance,  in  keeping  with  its  Aim  and  Con¬ 
viction  as  above  stated,  is  preeminently 
evangelistic.  By  this  term  is  meant,  how¬ 
ever,  nothing  narrow  or  superficial.  It 
includes  the  widest  possible  proclamation 
of  the  gospel  to  the  unsaved,  by  preach¬ 
ing  and  the  printed  page ;  the  develop¬ 
ment  of  the  spiritual  life  and  activity  of 
the  converts  by  pastoral  care  and  Bible 
teaching;  and  the  preparation  of  the  na¬ 
tive  churches  for  ultimate  self-mainte¬ 
nance  and  self-propagation  by  means  of 
preparatory  and  Bible  schools  for  the 
training  of  evangelists,  teachers,  pastors, 
and  Biblewomen.  No  educational  work 
is  done  merely  for  education’s  sake,  and 
only  such  is  carried  on  as  contributes  dis¬ 
tinctly  to  direct  evangelism. 

5.  Its  Missionary  Fields.  These  in¬ 
clude  : 

India  (Provinces  of  Berar,  Khan- 


desh  and  Gujarat). 

China  (Provinces  of  Kwang  Si,  An- 
huei,  Hunan,  Hupeh,  Kansu  and 
City  of  Shanghai). 

Tibet  (Province  of  Amdo). 

French  Indo-China  (Provinces  of 
Tonkin  and  Annam). 

Japan  (Province  of  Hiroshima). 

Philippines  (Island  of  Mindanao). 

Palestine  (Jerusalem,  Hebron  and 
Southern  Palestine). 

Africa  (Belgian  and  Portuguese  Con¬ 
go,  Sierra  Leone  and  adjacent 
French  Soudan). 

South  America  (Republics  of  Ar¬ 
gentina,  Chile  and  Ecuador). 

West  Indies  (Porto  Rico  and  Ja¬ 
maica)  . 

While  it  is  of  course  not  to  be  under¬ 
stood  that  the  Christian  and  Missionary 
Alliance  is  the  only  agency  at  work  in  the 
above  fields,  yet  in  many  parts  of  them 
this  Society  has  been  the  pioneer,  and  a 


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careful  estimate  puts  the  number  of  souls 
who  within  these  areas  are  wholly  de¬ 
pendent  upon  Alliance  missionaries  for 
their  only  chance  to  hear  the  gospel  at  no 
less  than  FORTY  MILLIONS.  What 
a  startling  fact !  What  an  overwhelming 
task!  What  a  grave  responsibility! 

6.  Its  Missionary  Staff.  This  consists 
of  about  300  American  and  British  mis¬ 
sionaries,  supplemented  by  some  600  na¬ 
tive  workers  in  the  various  fields.  The 
missionaries  include  both  lay  and  clerical 
candidates,  and  are  selected  with  primary 
reference  to  sound  evangelical  faith,  deep 
spirituality  and  consecration,  and  experi¬ 
ence  in  soul-winning,  coupled  with  a  rea¬ 
sonably  good  education,  practical  com¬ 
mon  sense  and  satisfactory  physical  con¬ 
dition. 

7.  Its  Missionary  Advances,  The  Al¬ 
liance  has  been  an  effective  pioneer  agen¬ 
cy  in  opening  up  a  number  of  totally  des¬ 
titute  and  neglected  fields,  such  as  Kwang 


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Si,  Hunan  and  South  Kansu  Provinces  in 
China,  the  Southern  Philippines,  the  Por¬ 
tuguese  Congo  and  the  Kuranko  coun¬ 
try  of  Sierra  Leone. 

It  built  the  first  Protestant  churches 
in  Venezuela  and  Ecuador,  has  effected  a 
fruitful  opening  among  the  Mapuche  In¬ 
dians  of  Chile,  and  is  novc  seeking  to 
reach  the  totally  unevangelized  savage 
Indians  in  the  extreme  eastern  portion  of 
Ecuador.  It  has  penetrated  the  sealed 
land  of  Tibet  on  its  northeast  frontier  and 
occupies  three  stations  within  its  borders. 
It  has  effected  an  entrance  into  French 
Indo-China  with  its  20,000,000  benighted 
souls,  and  is  as  yet  the  only  Protestant 
missionary  agency  at  work  there,  with  the 
exception  of  a  representative  of  the  B.  & 
F.  Bible  Society.  And  finally,  it  has  with¬ 
in  the  past  year  crossed  the  borders  into 
the  unoccupied  fields  of  French  Soudan 
and  French  Congo,  is  already  with  the 
full  permission  of  the  French  authorities 


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taking  active  steps  to  open  a  first  station 
in  the  great  Western  Soudan,  and  is  lay¬ 
ing  plans  to  establish  work  very  soon  in 
French  Congo  with  8,000,000  untouched 
souls. 

8.  Its  Missionary  Fruits.  Recognizing 
that  spiritual  results  can  never  be  ade¬ 
quately  expressed  by  mere  figures,  yet 
the  following  statement  may  serve  to  in¬ 
dicate  in  some  measure  what  God  has 
been  pleased  to  do  through  this  humble 
agency. 

In  its  16  distinct  fields,  distributed 
throughout  14  different  countries,  many 
hundreds  of  thousands,  if  not  millions,  of 
souls  have  been  brought  under  the  sound 
of  the  gospel  for  the  first  time.  Up  to  the 
end  of  1917,  13,278  had  been  baptized 
upon  clear  evidence  of  repentance  from 
sin  and  faith  in  the  Saviour.  There  were 
432  stations  and  outstations,  118  organ¬ 
ized  churches  with  over  9,000  baptized 
adult  members,  8,364  enrolled  in  Sunday 


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Schools,  5,570  in  Primary  Schools,  485  in 
Middle  Boarding  Schools,  and  166  in 
Bible  Training  Schools.  During  1917, 
1,425  received  baptism  and  2,827  others 
professed  conversion  and  were  under  in¬ 
struction  with  a  view  to  early  baptism. 

g.  It’s  Missionary  Outlook.  Without 
question  this  is  brighter  than  ever  be¬ 
fore.  The  missionaries  are  more  in  num¬ 
ber  and  matured  by  long  experience. 
The  native  workers  have  also  greatly  in¬ 
creased  in  number  and  efficiency.  The 
cumulative  effect  of  years  of  patient  seed 
sowing  and  sympathetic  contact  with  na¬ 
tive  communities  is  being  more  and  more 
seen.  Signal  providences  of  God  have 
been  operative  in  every  field,  opening 
doors,  removing  obstacles,  increasing  fa¬ 
cilities,  and  changing  the  attitude  of  the 
peoples  from  hostility  to  open  minded 
inquiry  into  the  gospel.  Despite  the 
widespread  effects  of  the  world  war,  only 
one  of  the  16  Alliance  fields  has  suffered 


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any  interruption  in  its  work,  and  that  for 
only  a  short  period.  The  other  fields  have 
faced  ever  increasing-  open  doors  and  un¬ 
limited  opportunities.  Indeed,  the  Lord 
has  made  these  years  of  war  the  very  best 
and  most  fruitful  in  the  history  of  the 
Society,  and  the  situation  on  almost  every 
field  is  ripe  for  a  new  advance  if  only 
recruits  and  resources  are  available. 

10.  Its  Missionary  Support.  The  mis¬ 
sionaries  are  guaranteed  no  fixed  salaries. 
They  go  to  their  fields  cheerfully  under¬ 
taking  to  unite  with  the  Board  at  home 
in  trusting  the  Lord  for  the  supply  of 
their  every  need,  temporal  as  well  as 
spiritual.  Moderate  living  allowances  on 
the  pro  rata  principle  are  sent  them 
month  by  month,  according  as  the  funds 
received  by  the  Board  permit. 

11.  Its  Missionary  Revenue.  The  work 
is  prosecuted  in  a  spirit  of  humble  and 
prayerful  dependence  upon  God  for  His 
support  through  the  voluntary  offerings 


of  His  people.  The  Society  does  not  in¬ 
cur  debt  nor  borrow  money  for  the  main¬ 
tenance  of  its  work.  No  personal  solici¬ 
tation  of  funds  is  made.  Printed  Reports 
are  circulated  annually,  and  missionary 
addresses  are  g'iven  at  conventions  and 
other  gatherings,  setting  forth  the  needs 
and  opportunities  of  the  fields  abroad, 
and  the  duty  and  privilege  which  these 
entail  upon  God’s  children  of  loyal  and 
wholehearted  response  by  prayer,  gift  and 
personal  service.  The  Scriptural  mode  of 
giving — voluntary,  proportionate  and  reg¬ 
ular — is  urged,  and  to  foster  this,  pledge 
cards  are  used.  The  idea  is  that  instead 
of  giving  spasmodically  and  emotionally, 
under  the  momentary  influence  of  a 
touching  appeal,  one  should  prayerfully 
enter  upon  a  definite  aim  and  effort,  in 
dependence  upon  God,  to  reach  some  ob¬ 
jective  point.  The  pledge  card  aids  to 
this  end.  It  is  not  a  promissory  note  for 
which  payment  will  ever  be  asked,  but  an 


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expression  of  consecrated  endeavor,  and 
a  stimulus  to  systematic  and  sustained 
giving,  the  whole  year  round.  It  becomes 
a  token  of  partnership  with  God  in  a  sa¬ 
cred,  mutual  trust.  Experience  has  proven 
repeatedly  that  this  method  of  distribut¬ 
ing  the  effort  over  all  the  days  of  the 
year  not  only  secures  the  largest  results 
as  to  the  offerings  but  also  brings  the 
fullest  blessing  to  the  offerer. 

12.  Its  Missionary  Opportunities  of 
Investment. 

$20  a  year  (a  trifle  over  5c.  a  day)  sup¬ 
ports  an  orphan  in  India,  or  a  pupil  in 
one  of  the  boarding  schools  on  several 
fields. 

$25  s  year  (50c.  a  week)  supports  an 
adult  student-in-training  in  one  of  the 
Bible  Schools. 

$25“$40  (50c.  to  75c.  a  week)  supports  a 
native  Bible  Woman  or  female  teacher. 
$50-$200  a  year  supports  a  trained  native 
evangelist,  pastor  or  male  teacher,  ac- 


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cording  to  field  and  standing  of  worker. 
$360  a  year  is  a  missionary’s  personal  al¬ 
lowance  on  most  fields,  $480  on  the  re¬ 
mainder. 

These  figures  place  it  within  the  reach 
of  almost  everyone  to  have  a  personal 
representative  in  some  missionary  land, 
and  supporters,  if  they  desire  and  request 
it,  can  be  put  in  touch  with  special  repre¬ 
sentatives,  and  the  bonds  of  fellowship 
and  prayer  thus  strengthened. 

It  may  be  stated  that,  in  addition  to 
ordinary  offerings  for  the  missionary 
work,  the  Board  is  prepared  to  accept  an¬ 
nuities,  and  by  their  investment  in  cer¬ 
tain  departments  of  the  work  during  the 
lifetime  of  the  annuitant  to  pay  interest 
thereon  at  six  per  cent,  per  annum.  This 
plan  has  been  welcomed  my  many,  as  en¬ 
abling  them  to  see  their  money  safely  in¬ 
vested  in  the  Lord’s  work  at  once,  obviat¬ 
ing  the  risk  of  its  miscarriage  after  their 
death,  and  at  the  same  time  providing  for 


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their  own  support  during  their  remaining 
years. 

Any  further  information  will  be  cheer¬ 
fully  given,  assignments  made,  deputa- 
tional  visits  arranged  for  where  practi¬ 
cable,  and  applications  by  missionary  can¬ 
didates  considered,  if  communications 
are  addressed  to  the  Foreign  Secretary, 
Christian  and  Missionary  Alliance,  690 
Eighth  Ave.,  New  York  City,  U.  S.  A. 

Contributions  may  be  sent  to  the 
Treasurer,  Christian  and  Missionary  Al¬ 
liance,  at  the  same  address. 


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